We need two more religion stories: (1) The Rise and Fall of the Other Mars Hill (Rob Bell)” & (2) if we’re going to talk about the failure of YRR we gotta talk about the massive failure of what YRRers, & those pushing it, tried to do with Reformed Hip Hop. That too was a failure.
Many white leaders believed black people were so simple that you could use guys rapping Calvinist doctrine as a way to increase black numbers into Reformed Evangelicalism. Often using black men/women not from the black church to draw black folk raised in their grandmama’s church.
Ahh, no. That’s was an epic fail. White Reformed evangelicals forgot to address the history of their racial oppression *before* they reached out. Not realizing that black folks read books & don’t just dance, listen to music, & play sports, they weren’t prepared for questions.
They often gave terrible answers and lots of black folk that used to headline the Legacy Conference, etc. & followed those leaded have not only left Calvinistic baptistic circles (1689, SBC, A29, etc.) but many have left evangelicalism altogether. #EpicFail
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